Wheel with traction-rim.



No. 635,l28. Patented 001. I7, I899; c. M. mssuswAv.

WHEEL WITH TRACTION RIM.

(Application filed Mar. 16, 1899.) (No Model.)

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WITNESSES: INVENTOR GZXLDQW. im. I ii ms uonms vs'rzns coy. PHOYO-LITHOY, WASHINGTON. n. c.:

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CROIVELL M. DISSOSVVAY, OF NEXV YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOHN GOODCI-IILD, GUARDIAN, OF SAME PLACE.

. WHEEL WITH TRACTlON-R|M.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 635,128, dated October 17, 1899'.

Application filed March 16, 1899- Serial No. 709,254. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concernk' inside of the rim before the latter is put on Be it known that I, OROWELL M. DISSOS- the wheel. Fig. 4 showsaconstruction where WAY, a citizen of the United States, residing the recess to receive the inset is counterbored in the borough of Manhattan, andin the city, from the outside and the inset has a shank 5 county, and State of New York, have invented which screws into the rim.

' certain new and useful Improvements in Him is hereused as synonymous with Wheels with Traction-Rims, of which the foltire. In some cases the integral portion lowing is a specification. of the wheel-rim is providedwith an outer This invention relates to the class of wheels portion shrunk or fastened on and called a [O which roll over a surface, as driving vehicletire, but the tire forms a part and a sub- Wheels, pulleys, and the like, and perform stantially integral part of the rim. their functions through traction, the object The function of the insets is to provide a being to provide the peripheral face of a metal frictional surface for the production of tracwheel-rim with insets of some material softer tion, and the invention is limited to traction- I 5 than the metal of the wheel, which increases wheels, or wheels which roll over a surface the traction or hold of the wheel on a rail, a either as a locomotive-driver rolls over a rail belt, or othersurface over which the wheel or or as a pulley rolls over a belt, whether it pulley rolls. drives the belt or is driven thereby.

In the accompanyingdrawings, which illus- Having thus described my invention, I 2o trate embodiments of the invention, Figure claim-- 1 is an edge view, partially in section, show- 1. A wheel having a removable tireor rim ing the driving-wheel of alocornotive or other of metal, and having insets of cork or the automobile provided with myimprovements. like in and extending entirely through said Figs. 2, 3, and 4 are fragmentary sectional rim and bearing on the face of the wheel. 2 5 views showing various ways of putting in the -2. A wheel having insets in its rim or tire insets. and extending entirely through the same, said In all of the views, A represents the metal insets being of softer material than the tire rim of the wheel, and a the insets of softer and occupyingcounterbored recesses therein. material set therein. Various materials may 3. A wheel having a removable tire, and 8o 30 be employed for the insets, as cork, wood, or headed insets in and extending through said a metal which is softer than the metal of the tire, the said insets being of relatively soft wheel-rim, which latter will usually be of iron material and occupying counterbored recesses or steel. If it be the rim or tire of a 1000 in the tire. motive-driver, it will be of steel, and if it be r 4. A wheel for traction purposes having a 5 the rim of a pulley it will usually be of castremovable metal rim or tire, and having iniron and be integral with the arms and boss sets in the face of and extending entirely of the pulley. Cork is preferred for the inthrough said tire, said insets being of softer sets, either cork cutintegrally from the piece material than the tire, cylindrical, and or a cork composition. It is also preferable screwed into the tire. 0 to make the recesses for the insets cylindrical, 5. A wheel for traction purposes having a as boring is the cheapest way of making the removable metal rim or tire, and having recess. Where cork or like compressible mascrewed into its face headed insets of softer terial is used for the insets, it is preferable to material than the tire, said insets occupying enlarge the recesses at the bottom, as seen in counterbored recesses in said tire. 5 5 Fig. 1. The insets are then compressed, in- In witness whereof I havehereunto signed serted, and allowed to expand in situ. my name, this 13th day of March, 1899, in the Fig. 2 shows a rim wherein the conical represence of two subscribing witnesses. cesses for the insets extend entirely through OROWELL M. DISSOSWAY.

the rim, and Fig. 3 shows counterbored re- IVitnesses: 5o cesses toreceive heads ontheinsets. In these PETER A. Boss,

constructions the insets are inserted from the HENRY OONNETT. 

